And now, I begin my writing on power levels and dedication. Dedication first, though.
This is not your normal Free RP. It's not as casual as it looks. You can't join the roleplay, start posting, and think you'll do great right at the start, because it's not easy. No matter how fast we've posted--and at one point there was a post per minute--our minds have always been working to get across what we want to with the limited format we have. And by now it's like muscle memory.
But it took a while, and a lot of dedication. It started on an app with two people posting back and forth, and over time, more stumbled upon the "chat". They started with no idea what it was. But they had a desire to learn, and each one soon began getting into it and adapting to what had spontaneously formed.
This roleplay eventually moved to the Old Guild, where new players came and went--no one had the drive to push through and adapt. Only two new members joined during that time and stayed. They looked at this RP and didn't shy away at the qualities they didn't understand. They went out of their comfort zone and pushed forward, and they learned.
But that's not always the case. Some time ago, someone approached our RP, asking about joining. He thought it would be like a Tabletop RPG, so we had to explain it to him. At first he was enthusiastic, but then he found out that we had no GM. He found that we all made up our own plots, and he faltered. He didn't like that. He wanted a roleplay where we were guaranteed success, where there was order, where there was a set plot that no one could deviate from. In short, he spurned creativity--he spurned the chance to have a part because it was too much.
At another time, we were approached by someone who wanted to use a third person narrative. He liked the idea and wanted to join, but couldn't bear to abandon his heritage of narrative-like description and thoughts. He didn't see that the point was to show the meaning, not tell it. We tried compromising for him. We let him have some of what he wanted. But in the end, it still wasn't enough, and he left.
But all this time, the truth has been that Myriad Reality does not adapt to you. You adapt to it. We're not desperate for people to join us, such that we'll take anyone. We're not looking for just anyone. We're looking for people who want to adapt. We're looking for people who want to think about it, who want to get out of their comfort zone and do something different. We're looking for people who want to learn, to change, to be free.
Myriad Reality is not a Free Roleplay, or a Casual Roleplay, or an Advanced Roleplay. It is its own. It is about freedom. It is about creativity. It is about intricacy. We freely create, but we do not roleplay without care. We roleplay informally, but we do not roleplay without thought. Our roleplay is advanced and intricate, but it does not give you every little detail we can think of just so we can pass some predetermined limit.
Myriad Reality is no mere roleplay. No, Myriad Reality is just as it says--a reality.
It is a world for thinkers.
